Patient Flow Portal Bed Board

User Guide

Version 5.2
November 2016
 Revision History

Version Issue date Description/Change Author

V0.1 01/11/10 Initial draft Steph Wood

V0.2 22/11/10 Draft updated following review Steph Wood
V0.3 23/11/10 Layout and edits Paula Cowan
V0.4 09/12/10 Updated Steph Wood
V0.5 01/03/11 Updated Steph Wood
V0.6 02/05/11 Updated Steph Wood
V.07 06/05/11 Updated following review by implementation team Steph Wood
V1.0 06/05/11 Final Steph Wood
V1.1 19/05/11 Bed definitions updated Steph Wood
Auto generated EDDs calculation updated & added
V1.2 20/06/11 Steph Wood
how to search for private facilities
Updated following new release:
Enhanced colours
Ability to define Boarder, Leave and Well Baby
beds
Ability to sort transfers list
V1.3 02/08/11 Highlighting of ED admission times that have Steph Wood
exceeded KPIs
Ability to enter Waiting for What
Changes to the detailed Patient Summary window
Ability to tick all statuses for manually transferred
patients
V1.4 24/08/11 Review by implementation team Steph Wood
Updated following release of the Admission risk
V1.5 14/05/12 Steph Wood
filters
Update Closed bed information in Bed Management
V1.6 10/09/12 Melinda Pascoe
Module
Updated following release of PFP Management
V1.7 03/12/12 Steph Wood
Grouping of Wards Stream 1 enhancements
Document updated and restructured for PFP Steph Wood and Pedram
V2.0 16/04/13
Technical Version 2.0 Bidhendi
Updates for release of PFP Release 3 Stream 3:
New Sections: 2.4, 3.4.2, 4.3.1, 4.4.1, 4.5.1, 4.6.1 Steph Wood and Pedram
V3.0 6/12/13
Modified Sections: 1, 2.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.5, 3.2.1, 3.2.3, Bidhendi
3.2.4, 3.4.4, 4.3, 4.5, 5.2
V3.0.1 4/2/2014 Updated Outgoing IHT 4.3.1 Melinda Pascoe
V4.0 May 2014 Updated User Preferences Steph Wood
V4.1 January 2015 Updated Waiting for What Screen shots Damian Miners
V4.2 June 2015 Updated Waiting for What Screen shots Melinda Pascoe
V4.3 July 2015 Updated Admission Risk function Pedram Bidhendi
V5.0 April 2016 Updated for PFP/EPJB Release Damian Miners
V5.1 June 2016 Updated Screenshots Richard Yarlett
V5.2 Nov 2016 Updated for PFP/EPJB Release Richard Yarlett

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 Contents
1.0 Overview of the Bed Board ................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Overview........................................................................................................................... 6
1.2 Bed Board Modules ........................................................................................................... 6
1.3 Definitions ........................................................................................................................ 7
1.3.1 Bed Availability ........................................................................................................................ 7
1.3.2 Changing a Bed Status ............................................................................................................. 8
2.0 Logging into PFP ................................................................................................................... 9
2.1 Accessing the Patient Flow Portal for the first time Request Access ............................... 9
2.2 Accessing Bed Board ....................................................................................................... 14
2.3 Bed Board Home Page .................................................................................................... 15
2.4 Setting up User Preferences ............................................................................................ 15
3.0 Bed Board ........................................................................................................................... 19
3.1 Patient Mode .................................................................................................................. 19
3.1.1 Viewing a Patient................................................................................................................... 22
3.1.2 Add a Waiting for What (WFW) Reason .............................................................................. 24
3.1.3 Edit a Waiting for What (WFW) Reason .............................................................................. 25
3.1.4 Delete a Waiting for What (WFW) Reason .......................................................................... 27
3.1.5 Primary Views ....................................................................................................................... 28
3.1.6 Identifying Well Babies, Leave patients and Boarders ................................................... 33
3.2 Patient List view .............................................................................................................. 34
3.2.1 Customising columns ............................................................................................................. 38
3.2.2 Printing the Patient List view ................................................................................................. 41
3.2.3 Request Inter Hospital Transfers from Patient List View ......................................................... 42
3.2.3.1 Add Facility and Receiving Doctor to an IHT Request ...................................................... 44
3.2.3.2 Remove Facility from IHT Request.................................................................................. 47
3.2.4 Request Inter Ward Transfer ................................................................................................. 49
3.3 Bed Mode ....................................................................................................................... 52
3.3.1 Primary Views ....................................................................................................................... 55
3.4 Other Bed Board Functions ............................................................................................. 56
3.4.1 Filters .................................................................................................................................... 56
3.4.1.1 Adding a Filter ............................................................................................................... 56
3.4.1.2 Doctor and Specialty Filters ........................................................................................... 57
3.4.1.3 Ward Filters ................................................................................................................... 58
3.4.1.4 Clearing Filters ............................................................................................................... 59

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 3.4.2 Searching for a Patient .......................................................................................................... 60
3.4.3 Graphing LOS and Potential Discharges ................................................................................. 61
3.4.4 General Functions ................................................................................................................. 62
4.0 Transfers ............................................................................................................................ 63
4.1 Overview......................................................................................................................... 63
4.2 Transfer Urgency Categories ........................................................................................... 63
4.3 Outgoing Inter Hospital Transfers (IHTs)......................................................................... 64
4.3.1 Customising columns ............................................................................................................. 66
4.3.2 Edit Outgoing IHT Request ..................................................................................................... 69
4.3.3 Cancelling Outgoing IHT Request ........................................................................................... 70
4.4 Incoming Inter Hospital Transfers (IHTs)......................................................................... 71
4.4.1 Customising columns ............................................................................................................. 72
4.4.2 Receive IHT from non-PFP sites ............................................................................................. 72
4.5 Ward Transfers ............................................................................................................... 75
4.5.1 Customising columns ............................................................................................................. 77
4.5.2 Edit IWT Request ................................................................................................................... 79
4.5.3 Cancelling an IWT .................................................................................................................. 79
4.6 Direct Ward Admissions .................................................................................................. 80
4.6.1 Customising columns ............................................................................................................. 82
4.6.2 Request New or Edit Direct Ward Admissions ........................................................................ 83
4.6.3 Cancel Direct Ward Admissions ............................................................................................. 83
5.0 Bed Management module .................................................................................................. 85
5.1 Ward Profile Window ...................................................................................................... 86
5.2 Schedule Window ........................................................................................................... 87

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 Commonly Used Terms

Acronym Description

AMO Admitting Medical Officer

DON Director of Nursing

DWA Direct Ward Admission

EDD Estimated Date of Discharge

IHT Inter Hospital Transfer

IWT Inter Ward Transfer

LHD Local Health District

LOS Length of Stay

NEPT Non-Emergency Patient Transport

PAS Patient Administration System

PFP Patient Flow Portal

W4W Waiting for What

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1.0 OVERVIEW OF THE BED BOARD
1.1 Overview
The Bed Board within the Patient Flow Portal (PFP) has three modules that provide the following
functions:
Real time patient information messages updated immediately.
View beds and occupancy across a LHD, hospital or ward.
Facilitate inter ward transfers, direct ward admissions and inter-hospital transfers across an LHD
and between LHDs.
Ability to record patients delays via the Waiting for What functionality.
Quick and easy to use filters for:
o Estimated Date of Discharge (EDD) monitoring.
o Length of Stay (LOS) review.
o Admission Risks.
o Financial Status including patients in single rooms.
o Identifying patients with delay reasons via Waiting for What
o AMO, Specialty, Ward Type, Ward Group or ED Accessible Wards.
Clinical specialty lists for hospital specialty profiles.
Snapshot statistics for:
o Clinician defined EDD.
o Average length of stay.
o Bed days to date.
o Occupancy.
o ED accessible bed Occupancy
Access Reports for Transfers, Waiting for What Delay Reasons and Occupancy.
Benefits:
The benefits the Bed Board provides include:
Access to real time information for a LHD, hospital, ward or patient. All patient information which
populates the Bed Board is received from the Patient Administration System (PAS) in real time
and therefore there is no delay in the retrieval of information.
Ability to access granular (patient level) and rolled up (LHD level) views.
Flexible filters and viewing options.
Simplified requesting, monitoring and tracking of Inter Hospital Transfers, Inter Ward Transfers
and Direct Ward Admissions.
Access to real time Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to patient flow.
Access to view bed availability via a visual display of capacity.
Options to view EDDs and LOS across a LHD or facility.
Ability to view and modify the status of a bed.
Visible flow measures that can inform local demand and escalation plans.
Information to predict potential capacity issues in advance based on known constraints.
1.2 Bed Board Modules
Bed Board has three modules which are described in this document:
1. Bed Board
2. Transfers
3. Bed Management

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1.3 Definitions

1.3.1 Bed Availability

The definitions used for determining the status of a bed within the Bed Board are identified in Table 1.
Table 1: Bed Board: Bed Status Definitions
Bed Status Definition

Physical Bed Capacity The total number of physical beds within a facility - this includes all open and closed beds.

Beds that have been opened and can be used by Patient Flow Managers - this includes available,
Open
surge and unavailable beds.

Beds that are available for a patient to be admitted into these can be occupied or empty:
Available Occupied: Open beds that have a patient currently in them.
Empty: Open beds that do not a have a patient currently in them.

Beds that can be made operational if required for short periods of time to manage capacity and
Surge
demand issues or for specific initiatives e.g. winter funding, surgical wait list management.

Open beds that are temporarily not available. They could be reserved or unavailable due to clinical,
staffing or maintenance issues.
Reserved: Open beds that are pre-allocated for specific patients and are time limited.
Unavailable
Clinical issue: Open beds that are temporarily unavailable due to clinical issues.
Staffing issue: Open beds that are temporarily unavailable due to staffing issues.
Maintenance issue: Open beds that are temporarily unavailable due to maintenance issues.

Closed Physically available beds that are closed.

Figure 1: Conceptual Overview of Bed Capacity

Physical Bed Capacity = 30

Closed = 10 Open = 20

Available = 14 Unavailable = 5

Occupied =11 Reserved = 1

Empty = 3 Clinical Issue = 1

Maintenance Issue = 0

Surge = 1
Staffing Issue = 3

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 1.3.2 Changing a Bed Status
Before the status of a bed can be changed the following points should be considered:
Opening beds beyond funded capacity (number of open beds) requires approval from the facility
General Manager/ After Hours delegate as per local delegation.
When changing the status of a bed, a bed status hierarchy applies (shown in the available field
options) e.g. making a bed unavailable will require the user to change the status to unavailable
and then select a reason from a list.
Beds can only be reserved if they are Open and Available i.e. are empty and not occupied by a
patient.
Requests for reserving beds must go to the Patient Flow Administrator. If approved then the bed
can be reserved and the user will be prompted to enter an expiry date/time for the reserve
action. This time can be up to 4 days in the future from the current date.

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2.0 LOGGING INTO PFP
2.1 Accessing the Patient Flow Portal for the first time Request Access
Before a user can start using PFP they must request access. To complete this user should go to:

http://pfp.healthtech.nswhealth.net/pfp/

The log in user name and password will be the users StaffLink details. Remember if this password
changes, it will change for the Patient Flow Portal also.

1. Request access to the facility/facilities they need to view the Bed Board Data for.
2. Obtain approval from a relevant PFP user to access those facilities.

The first time a user logs onto the PFP the following window will be displayed:
Figure 2 Security Administration, Request Access window

From this window the user must select the Access Level that they require using the drop down list at the
side of the field entitled Access Level. The user must ensure they select the correct level of access or
else the request will not be approved. Once the request has been saved, a list of people who are able
to approve the access will appear as shown in Figure 2.1

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Figure 3.1 List of PFP approvers

Click on the approvers email address hyperlink to auto generate an email requesting approval to the
PFP. The access levels available and examples of the types of roles for the different Access Levels are
detailed in the table below.

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 Direct Admissions
Access Level Bed Management Inter Hospital Hospital Ability to Approve /
EPJB EPJB Admin Bed Management Waiting for What & Inter Ward Predictive Tool Reporting
Example of user Admin Transfer Dashboard Deactivate Access
Transfer

Ward User View only

Ability to view / Ability to enter Ability to enter View only for
Nurses Ability to enter Download
update patient Nil Access Nil Access for approved for approved Nil Access approved Nil
Allied Health staff Ward Schedule for all Wards reports
information ward/s only ward/s only Hospital/s
Ward Clerk all wards

Clinical Manager View only

Ability to view / Ability to enter Ability to enter View only for
Nurse Unit Manager Update Bed Ability to enter Download Clinical Manager
update patient Nil Access for approved for approved View only approved
Nurse in Charge Setup only Ward Schedule for all Wards reports Ward User
information ward/s only ward/s only Hospital/s
Nurse Manager all wards
Patient Flow
View only Ability to enter Ability to enter Ability to enter Access and Connecting Care User
Manager Ability to view / View only for
Update Bed for all Wards for for all Wards for for all Wards for modify for Download Patient Flow Manager
Bed Manager update patient Nil Access approved
Setup only Ward Schedule approved approved approved approved reports Clinical Manager
After Hours Nurse information Hospital/s
all wards Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s Ward User
Manager
Access and
Patient Flow modify Ward Access and Ability to enter Ability to enter Ability to enter Access and Connecting Care User
Ability to view / View only for
Administrator Schedules and modify for for all Wards for for all Wards for for all Wards for modify for Download & Patient Flow Manager
update patient Nil restrictions approved
Patient Flow Ward Profiles for approved approved approved approved approved Schedule reports Clinical Manager
information Hospital/s
Manager approved Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s Ward User
Hospital/s

Facility Manager View only Facility Manager

Ability to enter Connecting Care User
General Manager Ability to view / Ward Schedule View only for View only for View only for View only for
for all Wards for Download
DON, DCS, DDON, update patient Nil Access all wards for Nil Access approved approved approved approved Patient Flow Manager
approved reports
Group / Service information approved Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s Clinical Manager
Hospital/s
Manager Hospital/s Ward User

View only
LHD User Ability to enter Ability to enter Ability to enter
Ability to view / Ward Schedule View only for View only for
for all Wards for for all Wards for for all Wards for Download
LHD ward users update patient Nil Access all wards for Nil Access approved approved Nil
approved approved approved reports
LHD Executive information approved Hospital/s Hospital/s
Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s
Hospital/s

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 Direct Admissions
Access Level Bed Management Inter Hospital Hospital Ability to Approve /
EPJB EPJB Admin Bed Management Waiting for What & Inter Ward Predictive Tool Reporting
Example of user Admin Transfer Dashboard Deactivate Access
Transfer
Connecting Care User
LHD User
Access and Facility Manager
LHD Administrator modify Ward Access and Ability to enter Ability to enter Ability to enter Access and
Ability to view / View only for Patient Flow
LHD Patient Schedules and modify for for all Wards for for all Wards for for all Wards for modify for Download & Administrator
update patient Nil restrictions approved
Flow/Access Ward Profiles for approved approved approved approved approved Schedule reports
information Hospitals Patient Flow Manager
Manager approved Hospitals Hospitals Hospitals Hospitals Hospitals
Hospitals Clinical Manager
Ward User
Ambulance User

View only
Ward Schedule View only for View only for View only for View only for View only for
Connecting Care Download
Nil Access Nil Access all wards for Nil Access approved approved approved approved approved Connecting Care User
User reports
approved Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s
Hospital/s

MOH User View only

Ward Schedule View only for View only for View only for View only for View only for
Director Download &
Nil Access Nil Access all wards for Nil Access approved approved approved approved approved Nil
Senior Managers Schedule reports
approved Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s Hospital/s
Project Officers Hospital/s

Access and Access and

Justice health User Ability to view / Ability to enter Ability to enter Ability to enter
Nil restrictions
Justice Health staff modify for modify for
update patient for all Wards for all Wards for all Wards
approved wards approved wards Nil Nil Nil Nil
information

Ambulance User
Predictions
Ambulance Liaison Nil Access Nil Access Nil Access Nil Access Nil Access Nil Access Nil
Summary tab
Officers Nil Access Nil Access Nil Access

System
Ability to view /
Administrator View only for all Download &
update patient Nil restrictions Nil restrictions Nil restrictions Nil restrictions Nil restrictions Nil restrictions Nil restrictions Can approve all users
MoH PFP Support Hospitals Schedule reports
information
Team

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Once a level of access has been selected from the drop down list the user must select the LHDs or
Facilities that they require access to. Depending on the access level selected a user can request access
to:
Multiple LHDs (and all the facilities within the LHDs).
Single LHD (and all the facilities within that LHD).
Multiple facilities.
Single facility.
Single or multiple wards within a Facility.
To request access to all the facilities within an LHD, the user must highlight the LHD in the list on the
right hand side of the window, then drag and drop the LHD into the list in the middle of the window. Each
facility will then be displayed in the list.

To request access to specific facilities the user must first highlight and then double click the LHD that the
facility is in, which in turn will display a list of all the facilities within that LHD. The users can then drag
and drop the individual facilities into the list. If single or multiple wards are required the user can then
drag and drop and the ward/wards into the list.
Note: Ctrl click allows the user to select multiple LHDs or multiple facilities at the same time and Ctrl
Shift allows the user to select a block of adjacent facilities.

Once the user has selected all the facilities they require access to, clicking on the Save button will
display a message advising that the approval requests have been submitted. The request will now
appear on the Approve Access list of the relevant approver and once the request has been approved
the user will be able to login and access the PFP for the approved facilities.

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2.2 Accessing Bed Board
1. Go to http://pfp.healthtech.nswhealth.net/ and the login page will be displayed:
Figure 4: Patient Flow Portal Login Page

2. Login page allows the user to logon to the full version of the Patient Flow Portal, the Dashboard or the module Electronic Patient Journey Board for a
selected hospital / ward.
3. To access Bed Board the user needs to logon to the Patient Flow Portal the blue login section on the login page.
4. Enter your StaffLink Log-in Name and Password.
5. Select StaffLink from the Organisation drop down list.
6. Click the Submit button.
By logging onto the Patient Flow Portal the user is acknowledging that they are abiding by the principles as set out in the NSW Health Privacy Manual 2005
(PD2005_593) and the Electronic Information Security Policy 2008 (PD2008_052). NOTE: If the above page does not display or a message appears advising
you need to install Adobe Flash Player 11 then please contact the State-wide Service Desk on 1300 28 55 33.

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2.3 Bed Board Home Page
Once a user has successfully logged onto PFP the Bed Board Home Page will be displayed.
Figure 5: Bed Board Home Page

The Bed Board allows the user to:

Evaluate how beds within a given ward are being used.
Understand current work practices by being able to identify which beds are open across an organisation to assist with demand and capacity planning.
Identify an organisations tipping points for demand escalation.

2.4 Setting up User Preferences

All users with the exception of Ambulance Users are able to set up their own user preferences which apply when they log on to the PFP or switch between
facilities. The preferences are defined by:
1. Clicking on the user login name at the top of the window which opens the Security Administration window.
2. Clicking on the User Preference tab as illustrated in Figure 6.

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Figure 6: Setting up User Preferences

Note: Numbers correspond to Functions listed in Table 2.

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Table 2: User Preferences

Allows the user to set up their own default user preferences for logging on to PFP, the primary view on the
Purpose
Bed Board and default filters on the Bed Board for each facility they have access to.

The screen is broken down into three sections, each section associated with a different user preference
default setting:
Logon LHD, Facility and Logon Module Only users with approved access to > 1 LHD and / or
facility will be able to default their Login LHD and / or Facility.
Bed Board primary view and associated primary filter This filter applies when viewing any facility
the user has approved access to.
Screen Layout
Bed Board Ward Type, Ward Group, AMO and Specialty filters which are unique to each facility the
user has approved access to.

To set up the User Preferences the user selects the required settings from the drop down lists and filters
defined in the Function list below and clicks on the Save button. For the preferences to take effect, the user
must log out and log back into PFP.

Refer to Figure 6: Setting up User Preferences

1. Login LHD: Allows the user to select the default LHD when logging onto the PFP. LHDs displayed
depends on the users access rights.

2. Login Facility: Allows the user to select the default facility when logging onto PFP.
Facilities displayed are based on the users access rights and the default Login LHD selected. I.e. it
is not possible for a user to have a Login Facility which is not located in the Login LHD.
All is an option which allows the user to display patients in All facilities they have access to for the
selected LHD by default when they first logon to the PFP.

3. Login Module: Allows the user to select the default login module when logging onto the PFP. Options
available are dependent on the users access level but may include one or more of the following:
Bed Board
Dashboard
EPJB
Predictive Tool
Reporting

Note: If user selects All as the Login Facility they will only be able to access the Bed Board module on login.

Note: If user selects All as the Login Facility they will only be able to access the Bed Board tab on login.
Functions
4. Bed Board Primary View: Allows the user to select 1 of the following Primary Views as their default
whenever they view the Bed Board for any facility:
Admission Risk
Age
Alerts
Financial Status
Gender
Good to Go
EDD
LOS
LOS >
Waiting for What

5. Bed Board Primary View Filter: Allows the user to select the Primary View filter as their default
whenever they go to the Bed Board for any facility they have access to. The filters change based on the
Primary View selected.

6. Display Ward Description: Allows the user to select if the Ward Description or the Ward Code displays
by default on the Patient Mode, Bed Mode and Patient List view of the Bed Board. Ticking the chec kbox

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 will display the Ward Description by default.

7. Bed Board Default Filter LHD: Allows the user to select the LHD to set up default filters for. LHDs
displayed depends on the users access rights.

8. Bed Board Default Filter Facility: Allows the user to select the facility to set up default filters for.
Facilities displayed based on the users access rights and the Bed Board Default LHD selected.
All is an option and allows the user to set up default filters when viewing All facilities in the given
LHD.

9. Bed Board Default Filter: Allows the user to set up different filters for each facility the user has access
to and the filters will be applied when the user selects to view the Bed Board for the given facility. When
using the Bed Board, the default filters can be removed at any time by clicking on the Clear all Filters
icon on Patient Mode and Bed Mode. The filters will be re-applied whenever the user switches back to
the given facility. To add one of the following filters in the table below, the user must highlight the value to
filter by in the list on the left (multiple selections can be made by using the Ctrl key or using the Shift
key to select a block of values) and then either drag and drop the value into the list on the right or click on
the right arrow button.

Filter Display

Displays the list of Ward Types and Sub Ward Types available for the user to
default by when viewing the selected facility.
Options available are based on the state-wide defined Ward Type Sub Ward
Ward Type Filter
Type list.
If Ward Group filters have been selected then Ward Type Filter tab will be disabled
(Ward Type filters and Ward Group filters cannot be applied at the same time).

Displays the list of Ward Groups available for the user to default filter by when
viewing the selected facility.
Ward Group Options displayed will be specific to the facility selected.
Filter Ward Group filter tab will be disabled if All is selected as the facility.
If Ward Group filters have been selected then Ward Type Filter tab will be disabled
(Ward Type filters and Ward Group filters cannot be applied at the same time).

Displays the list of AMOs to filter by when viewing the selected facility.
AMOs displayed will be specific to the facility selected depending on whether the
AMO has ever admitted a patient into the selected facility.
AMO Filter
If All is selected a consolidated list of ALL AMOs across ALL facilities the user
has access to for the given LHD will display i.e. if an AMO works across multiple
facilities they will display in the list multiple times.

Displays the list of Specialties available for the user to filter by when viewing the
selected facility.
Specialty Filter Specialities displayed will be specific to the facility selected.
If All is selected a consolidated list of ALL Specialties across ALL facilities the
user has access to for the given LHD will display.

10. Bed Board ED Accessible Filter: Allows the user to filter only ED Accessible wards by default for the
selected facility when viewing wards in Patient Mode, Patient List View and Bed Mode.

11. Clear Filters: Allows the user to clear any filters they have setup as a Bed Board default.

12. Reset Defaults: Resets to PFP default settings, which will result in the following:
Login LHD and Facility will be defaulted to the first LHD and Facility the user has approved access
to, based on the name in alphabetical order. E.g. If user has access to Far West LHD, Central
Coast LHD, Gosford Hospital and Wyong Hospital and they Reset Defaults the Login LHD and
Facility will be Central Coast and Gosford Hospital respectively.
Login Module will be defaulted to Bed Board.
Primary View will be defaulted to EDD and Clear.
Display Ward Description will not be selected.
Ward Type, Ward Group, AMO or Specialty filters will be cleared for all facilities.

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3.0 BED BOARD
The Bed Board module is the default view as detailed in Figure 5 with three key screens:
Patient Mode
Patient List View
Bed Mode
3.1 Patient Mode
The default view when the user clicks on the Bed Board tab is the Patient Mode view see Figure 7. This view
Figure 7: Bed Board Patient Mode View

Note: Numbers correspond to Functions listed in Table 3.

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Table 3: Bed Board: Patient Mode View Overview

Allows the user to view bed occupancy information, including information regarding the patients occupying a
Purpose bed, for a given LHD, hospital and ward. This is dependent on the organisation selected when logging on and
approved level of access the user has.

LHD/facility that the user is currently logged onto is displayed on the drop down list located underneath
the PFP logo on the top left of the window details.

Heading will display as LHD Profile or Hospital Profile depending on whether the user is viewing the
Patient Mode for a LHD or a specific hospital. This provides the user with a summary of the following
indicators:

Indicator Definition

ED accessible beds This is the % occupancy of ED accessible beds in the hospital/LHD.

occupancy*

Occupancy This is the total % occupancy of the hospital/LHD.

Number of patients Number of patients currently admitted to the hospital/LHD (excludes patients in
beds and wards flagged as Inactive and in beds flagged as On Leave, Well
Baby and Boarder).

Bed days to date Total numbers of days patients have been occupying beds.

Average LOS Average LOS of patients (excludes patients whose LOS = 0 days)

Clinician Defined The % of patients whos EDD that has been manually updated in the PAS. This
EDD* excludes patients in wards flagged as Day Only and Designated ED and
patients in any ward with LOS < 24 hours.

Note *: Refer to the PFP Administrator Guide for information on how to flag a ward as ED accessible,
Screen Layout

11
Day Only and Designated ED.

Next to the LHD/Hospital Profile summary is the Filtered Profile which displays a summary of the

22 patients displayed on the screen when a filter has been applied, a filter being either:

o Primary view - EDD, LOS, LOS >, Gender, Age, Waiting for What or Admission Risk.

33 o

o
AMO

Speciality

o Ward Group
9 9
44 o

o
Ward Type 55 66 11
11
7 ED accessible wards
8
7
o OR a combination of one or many of the above.
8
The first two columns on the main window, display the name of the Hospital and the ward.

The coloured tile to the right of the ward represents a patient who is currently admitted to that ward.

10
Refer to Figure 7: Bed Board Patient Mode View 10
1. LHD and/or Facility from the drop down lists can be changed depending on a users access rights, by
selecting another LHD and / or Facility and clicking on Select Hospital.
Functions
2. Access the Bed Board, Transfers or Bed Management functions.

3. Access Patient Mode or Bed Mode views within Bed Board.

4. Primary view filters for patients, which include: EDD, LOS, LOS >, Gender, Age, Waiting for What,

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 Admission Risk, Good to Go and Alerts. The coloured radio buttons update based on the primary view
selected.

5. Filter patients using AMO Filter for Doctors and Specialty.

6. Filter patients using Ward Filter for Ward Types, Ward Groups and ED Accessible Wards.

7. Hide wards with no patients.

8. Display the PFP defined Ward Description instead of the PAS defined Ward Code on the ward tiles.

9. Display a LOS / Potential Discharges Graph.

10. View patient information and access Waiting for What functionality.

11. General functions such as Refresh and Clear All Filters Refer to Section 3.4.

12. View LHD / Hospital Profile or Filtered Profile information. The Filtered Profile information is updated
when an AMO, Ward or Primary View filter is applied.

13. Access the Bed Management Admin module, which is accessible to Patient Flow Administrators only.

14. Patient Search button, which allows users to find any patient in the facility.

15. A Facility or LHD Patient List View can be accessed by clicking on the Facility name in the blue tiles on
the right hand side of the screen.

16. A Ward Patient List View can be accessed by clicking on the Ward Code in the light blue tiles next to the
patient tiles.

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 3.1.1 Viewing a Patient
Each bed that is occupied by a patient within a given ward is displayed as a coloured tile on the main
screen of the Patient Mode:

The colour of the tile and value displayed on it is dependent on the primary view filter selected. Placing
the cursor over a patient tile will display a hover over window detailing information about the patient who
is occupying that bed in the given ward as displayed in Figure 8 this information includes:
Patient name.
Admitting Medical Officer (AMO).
Bed number.
Room number.
EDD, LOS, LOS >, Gender, Age, Waiting for What, Financial Status, Admission Risk, Good to
go, Alerts - Depending on which primary view has been selected. For example in Figure 8 the
EDD primary view has been selected.

Figure 8: Bed Board Patient Mode, Patient Hover Over

Single clicking on a patients bed tile will display more detailed demographic information for the selected
patient at the top of the screen as illustrated in Figure 9. The additional information includes the:
Patient ID.
Admission Date.
Date of Birth.
Age.
Financial Status.
Address.
Language.
Medical Officer.
Specialty.

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Figure 9: Bed Board Patient Mode, Detailed Demographic View

Double clicking on a bed tile will display the patients detailed profile as displayed in Figure 10, which is a
read only view and details the patients:
Demographics and information about the current visit.
EDD History.
Admission History within the LHD.
Ward Transfers for Current Visit.
Summary of Waiting for What reasons.

Figure 10: Patient Mode, Detailed Patient Profile, WFW Summary Window

Clicking on the X at the top right of this patient profile window will return the user to the main Patient
Mode window detailed in Figure 7. For further information about the purpose, screen layout and functions
of the Detailed Patient Profile window refer to Table 5.

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 3.1.2 Add a Waiting for What (WFW) Reason
Figure 11: Patient Mode, Select a WFW Reason

Table 4: Select a Waiting for What Reason Overview

The Waiting for What (WFW) functionality allows the user to add details about delay reasons, which could be
potentially extending the patients length of stay in hospital or delaying them from being discharged.

Purpose A WFW reason can be added to a patients PFP admission record from the Detailed Patient Profile window by

clicking on the icon Refer to figure 7.

This will open the Select a Waiting for What Reason window, displayed in Figure 11.

Displays all the WFW reasons available for selection grouped by categories:
Consults
Diagnostics / Treatment
Screen Layout
Discharge Process
Out of Hospital Referral
Transfer / Transport

Selecting a WFW reason, which will result in the Edit Waiting for What window being displayed Refer to
Functions
Figure 12.

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 3.1.3 Edit a Waiting for What (WFW) Reason
Figure 12: Patient Mode, Edit WFW Reason

3 4

6
5

Note: Numbers refer to the Screen Layout section in Table 5.

Table 5: Edit a Waiting for What Reason Overview

The Edit WFW functionality allows the user to modify details about delay reasons, which could be potentially
extending the patients length of stay in hospital or delaying them from being discharged.
Purpose

A WFW reason can be edited by clicking on the icon from the Detailed Patient Profile window.

1. Header displays the Patient name, ID and Medical Officer.

2. Patient Details box displays non editable information for Bed, EDD, Admit Date, Specialty, DOB, Age,
Language and Address. This box is highlighted in pink for females and blue for males. A dark border
indicates that the EDD was auto-generated.

3. EDD History displays in top left hand quadrant of the screen next to the Patient Details box.

4. Admission History for the LHD displays in the top right hand quadrant of the screen. This information is
Screen Layout
non-editable and updates with admission history for the patient at all facilities within the LHD.

5. Ward Transfers for Current Visit displays in bottom right hand quadrant of the screen. This details the
ward transfers the patient has had within the specific facility for their current admission.

6. Waiting for What displays in bottom left hand quadrant of the screen for viewing and editing WFW
reasons. When a user is not editing a WFW reason, all WFW reasons are displayed in the WFW
quadrant on the screen See Figure 13.

User can:

Add free text notes to the selected Waiting for What reason.
Functions
Enter a Start Date either today or a date in past, but not before the admission date. This is a mandatory
field.

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 Add a Close Date which cannot be before the Start Date.

Save the WFW reason by clicking on the Save button.

Cancel changes by clicking on the Cancel button/

After clicking Save, the Detailed Patient Profile will display and the WFW reason will be detailed in the WFW
Summary Section of the Detailed Patient Profile window See Figure 13.

Figure 13: Patient Mode, Detailed Patient Profile, WFW Summary Window

A WFW reason can also be closed from the Detailed Patient Summary window as displayed in Figure 13
by:

Clicking in the Close Date calendar icon.

Selecting a date

Clicking on the Save button.

Once a Close Date has been entered for a WFW reason, the reason will still display in the list on the
WFW Summary window, but will be greyed out and non-editable.
.

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Figure 14: Patient Mode, Detailed Patient Profile, WFW Summary window, Closed WFW Reason

3.1.4 Delete a Waiting for What (WFW) Reason

If an Open WFW reason has been entered in error it can be deleted from the WFW summary window by

clicking on the delete icon at the side of the reason.

A message will appear confirming the deletion of the WFW reason asking the user to select:
Yes - Remove the reason from the patients list.
No - Leave the reason on the patients list.
Once a WFW reason has been closed it cannot be deleted from the patients profile.

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 3.1.5 Primary Views
Users are able to select what patient information to display on the tiles on the Patient Mode view by
selecting a Primary View from the drop down list at the top left of the screen.
Figure 15: Bed Board: Patient Mode, Primary View drop down list

The Primary View selected will determine the:

Colour of the patient tiles and the information detailed on the tile.
Radio buttons underneath the Display Views/Filters which will correspond to the colour coding on
the patient tiles.
Clicking on a coloured radio button further filters the patients according to the text against the radio
button. To clear this filter click on the radio button entitled Clear. The primary views that can be selected
are detailed in Table 6.
Table 6: Bed Board Patient Mode Primary Views

Primary Views Function

Displays the LOS for the given patient in the hospital.

The second filter using the coloured radio buttons allows the user to filter beds by LOS between a given
number of days:
o 0 4 days
o 5 9 days
LOS
o 10 14 days
o 15 19 days
o 20 49 days
o 50 99 days
o 99+ days

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 Primary Views Function

Displays the LOS for the given patient in the hospital.

The second filter using the coloured radio buttons allows the user to filter beds by LOS greater than a given
number of days:
o > 4 days
o > 9 days
o > 14 days
o > 28 days
o > 49 days
LOS >
o > 99 days
By regularly reviewing the LOS of patients staff can:
Identify patients who are staying longer than the average LOS.
Identify delays in care and ensure they are effectively managed. This is useful in capacity planning and
coordinating care to avoid unnecessary delays in discharging patients.
By knowing the average LOS by speciality, standardised practices can be put in place across wards, to improve
patient outcomes. Reviewing the LOS during daily bed meetings may assist in care coordination for patients who
have exceeded the average LOS.

Displays the number of days until the patients EDD

The number will be negative if a patients EDD has expired i.e. it is a date in the past.
The second filter using the coloured radio buttons allows the user to filter by EDDs:
o Expired (i.e. date in the past)
o Today
o Tomorrow
o 2-3 days
o 4-5 days

EDD o > 5 days

o Auto Generated - If a patient is admitted and does not have a Clinician Defined EDD, PFP will
automatically generate their EDD by calculating the median length of stay for the patients AMO for the
given ward using the last 13 weeks of data for discharged patients. If the AMO has never had an
admission to the given ward then PFP will calculate the median length of stay for the patients speciality
for the given facility using the last 13 weeks of data for discharged patients. If an EDD has been system
generated then the tile will have a bold highlight around it. The user can filter on these patients by
clicking on the radio button entitled Auto generated.
EDDs predict the likely date that a patient will be discharged from hospital back into the community and should be
reviewed frequently (in bed management daily meetings) and used as a planning tool to coordinate a patients care.
This information can assist with demand and capacity planning.

Displays the gender of the patient: either female or male.

The second filter using the coloured radio buttons allows the user to filter on beds occupied by just Male or
Gender Female patients:
o Female = pink colour
o Male = blue colour

Displays the age of the patient.

The second filter using the coloured buttons allows the user to filter the display based on age ranges:
o 0 17
Age
o 18 35
o 36 64
o 65 74

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 Primary Views Function
o 75 84
o 85+
o < 16
o > 75

Displays a reference to the Category of the Waiting for What (WFW) reason a patient has entered against
them.
The second filter using the coloured buttons allows the user to filter by the different Waiting for What
Categories:
o C = Consults

Waiting for What o D = Diagnostics/Treatment

o DP = Discharge Process
o OHR = Out of Hospital Referral
o T = Transfer/Transport
o M = Multiple Waiting for What reasons
o N = No Waiting for What Reasons

Displays the patients Financial Status which is based on their financial class code which is sent by the Patient
Administration System to PFP.
The second filter using the coloured buttons allows the user to filter by the different Financial Status:
o Pub = Public.
o Cha = Chargeable.
o DVA = DVA.
Financial Status o Com = Compensable.
o I = Ineligible.
o DC = Deferred.
o O = Other.
o Single Room = selecting this radio button will display only patients in beds flagged as being in a Single
room*. The patients Financial Status will still display on the tile.
Note *: Refer to the PFP Administrator Guide for information on how to flag a bed as being in a Single room

Only displays patients who have been previously admitted to a facility within the LHD and have met specific
criteria related to these previous admission(s) and their current admission. This applies to all Admission Risks
with exception of > 5 Ward Moves, ATSI and Remoteness.
The second filter using the coloured buttons allows the user to filter by a specific admission risk with the criteria
for each risk defined as:
Risk:1 Multiple admissions:
The patient is > 15 years of age
AND
This is the patients THIRD or more planned or unplanned admission in the last 12 months
Admission Risk
AND
At least two of the previous admissions were UNPLANNED i.e. first ward they were admitted under was
Emergency
Note: If a patient meets the criteria for Risk #2 (Multiple admissions - specific specialty) then they will not be
flagged as meeting this criteria.
Risk 2: Multiple admissions specific specialty:
The patient is > 15 years of age
AND
This is the patients THIRD or more, planned or unplanned, admission in the last 12 months

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 Primary Views Function
AND
Any specialty recorded against the patient whilst admitted under this third or more admission is one of
Endocrinology or Cardiology or Respiratory
AND
At least two of the previous admissions were UNPLANNED i.e. first ward they were admitted under was
Emergency
AND
Any specialty recorded against the patient of at least two of their previous admissions was one of Endocrinology or
Cardiology or Respiratory
Risk 3: Multiple Admissions - Same specialty:
The patient has a current, unplanned or planned, admission that has any specialty that is equal to any specialty
recorded against any other planned or unplanned admission in the last 12 months.
Risk 4: 28 day re-admit + ED:
The patient has a current admission that is unplanned i.e. they have been admitted via ED, within 28 days of their
last unplanned or planned admission, regardless of specialty.
Risk 5: 28 day re-admit:
The patient has a current admission that is planned i.e. they have not been admitted via ED, within 28 days of their
last unplanned or planned admission, regardless of specialty.
Risk 6:> 5 ward moves:
The patient has been moved to more than 5 wards during their current admission, this includes the ED ward.
Risk 7: ATSI:
Patients current ATSI status is equal to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders status.
Risk 8: Remoteness:
Patients whose current postcode is identified as being Remote or Very Remote:
2551 2873 2825 2824 2877 2839 2898
2396 2648 2715 2387 2832 2878
2672 2405 2829 2406 2831 2835
2388 2356 2711 2834 2879 2836
2400 2386 2675 2833 2880 2840

> 1 risk:
Patients who have met more than one admission risk
Note: An unplanned admission is an admission that was via the Emergency Department or into the Emergency
Department.

Exclusion criteria:
For all of the above selection criteria if the patient is in a ward assigned to one of the following ward type / sub ward
types they will not display with an admission risk: Medical / Dialysis OR Paediatric / Dialysis OR Ambulatory
Care / No Subtype.

Displays eMR or PAS Alerts which are sent to the PFP.

The second filter using the coloured buttons allows the user to filter patients by the following categories:
Undefined
Alerts Administrative
Allergies
Clinical
Infection

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 Primary Views Function
Security
Special
Multiple Alerts
All Alerts
None

Displays the Good to Go (G2G) status of the patient as entered into either the EPJB column, Update Patient
Details Window or Bed Board Patient List View.
The second filter using the coloured buttons allows the user to filter patients according to the G2G entry:
Yes
Good to Go
10 AM
?
No
All G2G

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 3.1.6 Identifying Well Babies, Leave patients and Boarders
Beds can be flagged by Patient Flow Administrators in the PFP Bed Management Admin module as:
Well Baby.
On Leave.
Boarder.
Figure 16: Bed Board: Patient Mode, Well Baby, Leave and Boarder beds

Table 7: Identifying Well Babies, Leave patients and Boarders Overview

Identifying beds for Well Babies, Leave patients and Boarders will:
Exclude the patients in these bed types from all counts and occupancy calculations in the LHD / Hospital
Profile and Filtered Profile data.
Purpose
Exclude the patients in these bed types from occupying a bed tile on the Bed Mode view.
Display patients in these bed types on the Patient List View identified by the # symbol which will appear
at the side of the bed number.

Once a bed has been flagged as Well Baby, On Leave or Boarder, if a patient is admitted into, or
transferred to, one of these beds they will be displayed on the Patient Mode view with a white tile and
black text. Refer to Figure 16.
The patient tile will display at the end of the row of patients, so they can easily be distinguished from
Screen Layout
actual admitted patients. Note: Differentiating between bed types i.e. Well Baby, On Leave or
Boarder from the Patient Mode view is not possible. However the ward that the bed is associated with
should be an indication as to what type of bed it is.
Text on the bed tile will be as per the Primary View selected i.e. EDD, LOS etc.

When a secondary filter is applied using the coloured radio buttons or the AMO / Specialty filters, the patients
Functions
in these bed types do not display on Patient Mode.

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3.2 Patient List view
PFP Bed Board has three Patient List Views:
1. Ward View Lists all patients currently admitted to a ward.
2. Facility View Lists all patients currently admitted to a facility.
3. LHD View List all patients currently admitted to all facilities within a LHD.
To access the Facility or LHD Patient List View, dependent upon the level of access the user has
approval for, the user needs to single click on the Hospital tile from the Patient Mode as illustrated in
Figure 17. To access the Ward List View, a user needs to single click on the Ward tile from the Patient
Mode.
Figure 17: Bed Board Access Patient List View

Whether the Facility or LHD view opens is dependent on whether the user is viewing Patient Mode for a
single facility or ALL facilities in that LHD.

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Figure 18: Bed Board Ward Patient List View

Note: Numbers correspond to Functions listed in Table 8

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Table 8: Bed Board Patient List View

The Patient List View allows users to view detailed information about the patients in their Ward, Facility or
Purpose LHD depending on their level of access. This information can also be printed to a PDF or CSV file for users to
take to meetings.

LHD/facility that the user is currently logged onto is displayed on the drop down list located underneath
the PFP logo on the top left of the window details.

Heading will display as LHD Profile or Hospital Profile depending on whether the user is viewing the
Patient Mode for a LHD or a specific hospital. This provides the user with a summary of the following
indicators:

Indicator Definition

ED accessible beds This is the % occupancy of ED accessible beds in the hospital/LHD.

occupancy*

Occupancy This is the total % occupancy of the hospital/LHD.

Number of patients Number of patients currently admitted to the hospital/LHD.

Bed days to date Total numbers of days patients have been occupying beds.

Average LOS Average LOS of patients (excludes patients whose LOS = 0 days)

Clinician Defined The % of patients whos EDD that has been manually updated in the PAS. This
EDD* excludes patients in wards flagged as Day Only and Designated ED and
patients in any ward with LOS < 24 hours.

Note *: Refer to the PFP Administrator Guide for information on how to flag a ward as ED accessible,
Day Only and Designated ED.

Next to the LHD/Hospital Profile summary is the Filtered Profile which displays a summary of the
patients displayed on the screen when a filter has been applied, a filter being either:

o Primary view - EDD, LOS, LOS >, Gender, Age, Waiting for What, Financial Status, Admission
Screen Layout Risk, Good to Go and Alerts

o AMO

o Speciality

o Ward Group

o Ward Type

o ED accessible wards

o OR a combination of one or many of the above.

If the Ward List View is being viewed a Ward Profile will also display, identifying the number of patients in
red and number of beds in black by bed status, as displayed below. Note: The Ward Profile does not
display if the user is viewing a Facility or LHD View.

If the primary view selected is EDD, then the value in the EDD column will display as per the applicable
colour for EDD on the Patient Mode. This only applies for the EDD primary view, if any other primary view
is selected the EDD cells will be the default blue colour.

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 Secondary filter radio buttons will update based on primary view selected from Patient Mode. Note:
primary view is not editable on the Patient List View so the user is required to return to Patient Mode to
change the primary view.

Patients are listed in tabular format with columns that can be customised by the user. The default sort is
alphabetical by Ward and then Bed Number, however the data can be custom sorted by clicking on any
of the column headers to sort in ascending order by the given column type i.e. numeric fields e.g. Age,
will sort from lowest (youngest) to highest (oldest) or for text fields, the sort will be alphabetically. Clicking
on the column again will reverse sort the column. Refer to Section 3.2.1 for details about the columns
that can be applied to Ward, Facility and LHD Views respectively.

Refer to Figure 18: Bed Board Ward Patient List View

1. LHD and/or Facility from the drop down lists can be changed depending on a users access rights, by
selecting another LHD and / or Facility and clicking on Select Hospital.

2. Access the Bed Board, Transfers or Bed Management functions.

3. Access Patient Mode or Bed Mode views within Bed Board.

4. Filter patients using AMO Filter for Doctors and Specialty.

5. Filter patients using Ward Filter for Ward Types, Ward Groups and ED Accessible Wards. This only
applies to Facility and LHD Patient List View.

6. General functions such as Refresh and Clear All Filters Refer to Section 3.4.1.4.

7. View Ward Profile information. This only applies to Ward Patient List View.

Functions 8. View LHD / Hospital Profile or Filtered Profile information. The Filtered Profile information is updated
when an AMO, Ward or Primary View filter is applied.

9. Customise columns to be displayed on the Patient List View. When a user exits the Patient List View, the
columns selected, order of columns and width of columns are saved. Thus the layout of the Patient List
View as created by the user will still be retained for next time the user logs on.

10. Reset columns to the default system generated view.

11. Access the Bed Management Admin module for Patient Flow Administrators only.

12. Patient Search button

13. Print the Patient List View in PDF or CSV format.

14. Exit the Patient List View and return to the Patient Mode by clicking on .

15. Columns as selected. See 3.2.1 Customising Columns.

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 3.2.1 Customising columns
Additional columns can be added to the Patient List view by ticking the relevant checkbox(s) from the
drop down list displayed when clicking on the arrow at the side of the button entitled Click to Customise
Columns as displayed below:

The columns that are available for each Patient List View are listed in Table 9.
Table 9: Bed Board Patient List View Columns

Column Ward Facility LHD Notes

Allows user to initiate an Inter Hospital or Inter Ward

Actions X X X
Transfer for the patient.

Displays the patients address. Will only display if the user

Address X X X
has access to the ward the patient is admitted to.

Patients who have exceeded the defined KPIs for LOS in

the Emergency ward/department will have their Admission
Admission Date/Time X X X date/time highlighted in the relevant colour on the Patient
List View Refer to Figure 19.
If hospital LOS < 3 hours then Admission

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 Column Ward Facility LHD Notes
Date/time will be displayed in black.
If hospital LOS > = 3hours and < 4 hours then
the Admission Date/time will be displayed in
orange.
If hospital LOS >= 4 hours then the Admission
Date/time will be displayed in red.

Note: The Emergency ward must be flagged as

Designated ED in the Bed Management Admin module to
ensure that the following colouring displays specific
patients, refer to the PFP Administrator Guide for further
information.

Data only displays for selected facilities that send

admission reasons via the HL7 messaging interface. As of
December 2013 this includes all LHDs using Cerner and
the following LHDs using iPM: South Eastern Sydney,
Admission Reason X X X
Illawarra Shoalhaven, Western NSW and Far West. The
iPM LHDs send the Presenting Problem from Referral
data which only provides admission reason for those
patients admitted from the waiting list.

Admission Risks X X X Displays the admission risks the patient meets.

Age X X X

Displays coloured triangle alert. Hover over reveals details

Alerts X X X
of the alert along with the source (eMR or PAS)

Bed X X X Bed patient is occupying.

DOB X X X Date of birth.

Displays with colour background. Colours are based on

EDD X X X
EDD colour on the Patient Mode.

Displays the number of days remaining until the Estimated

EDD # X X X
Date of Discharge.

Facility X

The Financial Description displayed is based on the

Financial Description X X X financial class code sent by the PAS to PFP. E.g. Medicare
D/O Hospital Doctor.

The Financial Status can be one of the following:

1. Public.
2. Chargeable - patients with private health insurance or
other cover that NSW Health can recover the cost of
the service from.
3. DVA patients with Department of Veteran Affairs
cover.
Financial Status X X X
4. Compensable patients with a compensable status
such as MAA or Workers Compensation.
5. Ineligible patients who are ineligible for Medicare
cover.
6. Deferred patients with a deferred financial
classification.
7. Other patients who are a Boarder, admitted with an

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 Column Ward Facility LHD Notes
outpatient financial class or admitted with a financial
class code that has not been sent to PFP previously.

Gender X X X

Displays the Good to Go (G2G) status of the patient as

entered into either the EPJB column, Update Patient
Details Window or Bed Board Patient List View. Options
are
Good to Go X X X Yes = discharge today
10 AM = discharge today before 10 AM
? = query discharge today
No

Bi-directional interface with EPJBs

HLOS X X X Length of stay of the patients current admission.

Displays the Insolation Requirement (I/R) status of the

patient as entered into either the EPJB column, Update
I/R (Isolation requirement) X X X Patient Details Window or Bed Board Patient List View as
Yes or No. Optional free-text ability displayed on hover.

Bi-directional interface with EPJBs

MO Specialty X X X

Medical Officer X X X

Name X X X

Displays the patients UID, however if no UID has been

Patient ID X X X
sent to PFP the MRN will display.

As of December 2013, PFP only receives the patients

Service Category X X X Service Category from Sydney, South Western Sydney,
Northern NSW and Mid North Coast LHDs.

Displays whether the patient is occupying a bed in a Single

Room.

Note: Patient Flow Administrators can change the setup of

Single Room X X X Single Rooms in their facility via the Bed Profile tab in the
Bed Management Admin module. Refer to the PFP
Administrator Guide for further information regarding this
setup.

Displays for all patients regardless of whether the user has

Suburb X X X or has not got approved access to the ward they are
viewing.

Displays the WFW Category with codes:

C = Consults
D = Diagnostics/Treatment
WFW X X X
DP = Discharge Process
OHR = Out of Hospital Referral
T = Transfer / Transport

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 Column Ward Facility LHD Notes

WLOS X X X Length of stay of the patient in the current ward.

Ward X X

Ward Group X X X

Ward Type X X X

Figure 19: Bed Board Patient List View, Highlighting Emergency Patients

3.2.2 Printing the Patient List view

The Patient List View can be printed as a PDF or CSV file for the given LHD, Facility or Ward by clicking
on the PDF or CSV buttons, located just above the far right column.
Figure 20: Bed Board Ward Patient List View (PDF Document)

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For the PDF print out:
EDD cells will always display in the relevant colour regardless of the primary view selected when
the PDF was printed Refer to Figure 20.
Extra blank rows will display depending on the number of available beds in the ward. This only
applies to the Ward List View.
If the PDF or CSV file for a ward is printed the Ward Profile section will also print displaying number of
patients in each bed (i.e. Open, Available, Surge, Unavailable and Closed).

3.2.3 Request Inter Hospital Transfers from Patient List View

Inter Hospital Transfers (IHT) can be initiated from the Facility or Ward Patient List Views via the Actions
column by clicking on IHT as displayed in Figure 21.
Figure 21: Bed Board Patient List View Actions Column

When IHT is clicked, the IHT Patient Transfer Request window will display Refer to Figure 22. The
patients details will be automatically defaulted and the user will be required to complete the fields that
have not been auto completed by PFP.
Fields with an * at the side of them are mandatory and must be completed before the transfer request
can be submitted. Table 10 provides an overview of the data elements displayed on IHT Patient Transfer
Request window and whether the fields are auto populated or require manual updates by the user.
Figure 22: Bed Board: IHT Request initiated from Patient List View

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Table 10: Bed Board IHT Request initiated from Patient List View Data Elements

Auto or Manual
Field Comment
Update

Patient First Name Auto Patient first name.

Patient Last Name Auto Patient last name.

Patient ID Auto Patients ID (UID or MRN if UID is not sent to PFP from the PAS).

Patient D.O.B Auto Patients date of birth displayed as DD/MM/YYYY.

Patients Address and Suburb. The address will only display if the user
Patient Address Auto
has access to the ward the patient is currently admitted to.

Gender Auto Patients gender.

Current ward patient is in, which is automatically updated each time a

Current Ward Auto
patient is transferred.

Financial Status Auto Patients Financial Status.

Detailed description in regards to the patients financial status. For

Financial Description Auto example a patient with Financial Status = Public may have a Financial
Description = Medicare D/O Hospital Doctor.

Isolation Requirement Manual Indicates if the patient needs to be isolated.

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 Auto or Manual
Field Comment
Update

Urgency of the transfer options:

Life threatening
Urgent specialist care < 24hrs
Urgency Manual Inpatient specialist care 24-72hrs
Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care
Inpatient specialist care 24-72hrs (Future)
Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care (Future)

Bed Type Required Manual The type of bed the patient needs when transferred e.g. Monitored

The speciality the patient is to be admitted to the new hospital under

Speciality Manual
selected from a pre-defined list

The date the patient is due to be transferred.

Disabled and defaults to the Now date and time if the Urgency is one of
the following:
Life threatening
Urgent specialist care < 24hrs
Estimated Transfer Date Manual
Inpatient specialist care 24-72hrs
Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care

Enabled, blank and is mandatory if Urgency is one of the following:

Inpatient specialist care 24-72hrs (Future)
Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care (Future)

Transfer Notes Manual Free text notes regarding the transfer of the patient

Requesting Doctor Manual Name of the Doctor requesting for the patient to be transferred

Contact Name Manual Name of the person to be contacted in relation to the transfer

Contact Phone Manual Contact number of the person to be contacted

Facility where the patient is being requested to be transferred to.

Multiple facilities can be entered to request for the patient to be

Patient being transferred
Manual transferred to.
to^
Once one of the facilities has confirmed they will accept the patient the
transfers to the other facilities are closed.

Note ^: To add the facility (or multiple facilities) the patient is being requested to be transferred to the
user must click on the Add Facility button which will open a new window.
Once all mandatory information has been entered, clicking on the Save button will submit the transfer
request and return the user to the Patient List View. By clicking on the Cancel button, the transfer
request will be cancelled and the user will be returned to the Patient List View. If the IHT has been saved
it will appear on the Transfers module under the:
Outgoing IHTs tab for the facility initiating the transfer.
Incoming IHTs tab for the selected facility.
3.2.3.1 Add Facility and Receiving Doctor to an IHT Request
The user can select the facility the patient is to be transferred to from a:
Drop down list (Refer to Figure 23) OR
Search function if the facility is not in the drop down list. For example the patient needs to be
transferred to a Private facility or a non-PFP Refer to Figure 24.

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Figure 23: Bed Board IHT, Select facility from drop down list

Figure 24: Bed Board IHT, Search for a facility

From the search window the user can enter a keyword to search for the facility they want to transfer the
patient to e.g. if the user types in the letters ash, then the system will return all facilities that include the
letters ash in their name e.g. Ashford Private Hospital, BUPA at Ashbury, Goodwin Village Monash.
Highlighting and single clicking on a facility in the list will close the Search Facility window and return the
user to the Add a Facility window where information on the receiving doctor can be added.
The user can select the Receiving Doctor who will be accepting care for the patient at the incoming
facility the patient is being transferred to, either through:
Search function for those facilities which are active on PFP and have patients admitted. The
Search function allows user to select an AMO who has admitted a patient to the hospital in the
last 6 months. ED Staff Specialist / Consultant may be used only if the patient requires urgent
transfer to the Emergency Department.

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 Free text a Receiving Doctor for those facilities that are not active on PFP. For example private
hospitals.
Figure 25: Bed Board IHT, Select Receiving Doctor Search

Figure 26: Bed Board IHT, Select Receiving Doctor free text

Once a Facility and Receiving Doctor have been selected, the user needs to click Add to be returned to
the IHT Request window where the facility (or facilities) the patient is being requested to be transferred to
will be displayed.

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3.2.3.2 Remove Facility from IHT Request
The user can remove a selected facility for the patient to be transferred to by clicking on the Remove
button Refer to Figure 27.
Figure 27: Bed Board: Inter Hospital Transfer, Removing a Facility

Once an IHT Request has been accepted by the Incoming Facility (i.e. Transfer has status = Confirmed),
the facility can no longer be removed as displayed in Figure 28.
Figure 28: Bed Board: Inter Hospital Transfer, Removing a Facility Not Possible

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Reviewing IHT in BedBoard Patient List View
Once an Inter Hospital transfer request has been completed the IHT in the Actions column will glow red,
thus indicating that an IHT request has been made for that patient.
If a user then right clicks on the red IHT in the Actions column a small window will open with the patients
Inter Hospital transfer details inside.

Details include:

To Facility
Urgency
Status
Open Transfer Time
Specialty

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 3.2.4 Request Inter Ward Transfer
Inter Ward Transfers (IWT) can be initiated from the Facility or Ward Patient List Views via the Actions
column by clicking on IWT as displayed in Figure 29.
Figure 29: Bed Board Patient List View Actions Column

When IWT is clicked, the IWT Patient Transfer Request window will display Refer to Figure 30. The
patients details will be automatically defaulted and the user will be required to complete the fields that
have not been auto completed by PFP.
Fields with an * at the side of them are mandatory and must be completed before the transfer request
can be submitted. Table 11 provides an overview of the data elements displayed on IWT Patient Transfer
Request window and whether the fields are auto populated or require manual updates by the user.
Figure 30: Bed Board IWT from Patient List View

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Table 11: Bed Board IWT Request initiated from Patient List View Data Elements

Auto or Manual
Field Description
Update

Patient First Name Auto Patient first name

Patient Last Name Auto Patient last name

Patient ID Auto Patients ID (UID or MRN if UID is not sent to PFP from the PAS)

Gender Auto Patients gender

Patient D.O.B Auto Patients date of birth displayed as DD/MM/YYYY

Current Ward Auto Ward the patient is currently admitted to

Financial Status Auto Patients Financial Status.

Detailed description in regards to the patients financial status. For

Financial Description Auto example a patient with Financial Status = Public may have a Financial
Description = Medicare D/O Hospital Doctor.

Isolation Requirement Manual Indicates if the patient needs to be isolated.

Urgency of the transfer options:

Life threatening
Urgency Manual
Urgent specialist care < 24hrs
Inpatient specialist care 24-72hrs

Bed Type Required Manual The type of bed the patient needs when transferred e.g. Monitored

The speciality the patient is to be admitted to the new hospital under

Speciality Manual
selected from a pre-defined drop down list

Estimated Transfer Date Manual The date the patient is ready to be transferred

Transfer Notes Manual Free text notes regarding the transfer of the patient

Requesting Doctor Manual Name of the Doctor requesting for the patient to be transferred

Contact Name Manual Name of the person to be contacted in relation to the transfer

Contact Phone Manual Contact number of the person to be contacted

Ward the patient is being requested to be transferred to selected from a

To Ward Manual
drop down list

Receiving Doctor Manual Name of the Doctor who has accepted the patient

Contact Manual Name of the person to be contacted in relation to the ward transfer

Once all the mandatory information to request the ward transfer for the patient has been entered, clicking
on the Save button will submit the transfer request and return the user to the Patient List View. Clicking
on the Cancel button will allow the user to cancel the transfer request and return the user to the Patient
List view. If the IWT request is saved it will appear on the Transfers module under the Ward Transfers
tab for the selected facility.

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Reviewing IWT in BedBoard Patient List View
Once an Inter Ward transfer request has been completed the IWT in the Actions column will glow red,
thus indicating that an IWT request has been made for that patient.
If a user then right clicks on the red IWT in the Actions column a small window will open with the
patients Inter Hospital transfer details inside.

Details include:

To Ward
Urgency
Status
Open Transfer Time

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3.3 Bed Mode
To open the Bed Mode the user must click on the tab entitled Bed Mode.
Figure 31: Bed Board Bed Mode, Patients & Beds View

Note: Numbers correspond to Functions listed in Table 12.

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Table 12: Bed Board Bed Mode

The Bed Mode allows the user to view information about the status / availability of beds in a ward for the
Purpose
selected LHD or hospital.

Hovering over the Ward will display Ward Profile information. The information displayed in red is the
number of patients and black is the number of beds.

Screen Layout
Clicking on a Ward tile will take the user to the Schedule View for that ward.

The first two columns on the main window display the name of the Hospital and the ward.

The colour of the tiles on the bed mode indicates the status of the bed.

The coloured lines overlaying the bed tiles provide an indication of the current occupancy of the beds.

Refer to Figure 31: Bed Board Bed Mode, Patients & Beds View

1. LHD and/or Facility from the drop down lists can be changed depending on a users access rights, by
selecting another LHD and / or Facility and clicking on Select Hospital.

2. Access the Bed Board, Transfers or Bed Management functions.

3. Access Patient Mode or Bed Mode views within Bed Board.

4. Filter beds using the primary view filter to view patients and beds, beds or vacant beds Refer to Section
3.3.1 for further information.

5. Filter beds using Ward Filter for Ward Types, Ward Groups and ED Accessible Wards.

6. General functions such as Refresh and Clear All Filters Refer to Section .

7. View Ward / Unit Status:

Ward Status Bed Colour Description

Functions This indicates there are X number of beds occupied in the ward and
Used Available that patients are only occupying available beds and the ward is not
over capacity.

This indicates there are X number of beds occupied in the ward and
Used Surge whilst some of the beds that are occupied have a status of Surge the
ward is still not classified as over capacity.

Used This indicates there are X number of beds occupied in the ward and
Closed/Over the ward has now exceeded its capacity of available beds (includes
Capacity patients in Surge beds but excludes patients in closed beds).

8. Bed Status:

Bed Status Bed Colour Description

Available beds Physical beds which are either empty or occupied.

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 Physical beds which are temporarily not available due to: clinical,
Unavailable beds
staffing or maintenance issues.

Physical beds that can be operational if required for short periods of

time to manage capacity and demand issues i.e. flex beds.
Surge beds
Note: If the bed is classed as Surge, this is only as defined by the
hospital and is not classed as such by the Ministry of Health.

Closed beds Physically available beds which are unfunded and closed.

Over Capacity
Beds which are over the defined physical capacity of the hospital.
beds

9. Ward Filtered Profile displays bed information in terms of number of patients in red and number of beds
in black based on bed status: Physical Capacity; Open; Available; Unavailable; Surge and Closed. The
filters that impact the Ward Filtered Profile are:

Ward Group

Ward Type

ED Accessible Ward

10. Bed Profile displays the total hospital bed information in terms of number of patients in red and number of
beds in black based on bed status: Physical Capacity; Open; Available; Unavailable; Surge and Closed.

11. Access the Bed Management Admin module for Patient Flow Administrators only.

12. Patient Search button.

13. Hide wards with no beds.

14. Display the PFP defined Ward Description instead of the PAS defined Ward Code on the ward tiles.

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 3.3.1 Primary Views
Users are able to select what bed information they want displayed on the Bed Mode view by selecting a
primary view from the drop down list at the top left of the screen:
Figure 32: Bed Board Bed Mode, Primary View drop down list

The coloured radio buttons will change according to the primary view selected and correspond to the
colour coding on the bed tiles. Clicking on a coloured button will filter the beds displayed accordingly.
The following table details the primary views that are available in Bed Mode.
Table 13: Bed Board Bed Mode Primary Views

Primary View Description

Provides an overview of the status of every bed in a given ward and the current occupancy. It does not
provide any information about the actual patients who are occupying the beds. The second filter using the
coloured radio buttons allows the user to filter by the different Bed Status:
Open
Patients & Beds Available
Surge
Closed
Unavailable
Over Capacity

Provides an overview of the status of every bed in each ward, regardless of whether it is currently
occupied or not by a patient. The second filter using the coloured radio buttons allows the user to filter by
the different Bed Status:
Beds
Available
Surge
Unavailable

Provides an overview of the beds that are not currently occupied by a patient in each ward. The second
filter using the coloured radio buttons allows the user to filter by the different Bed Status:
Vacant Beds view Available
Surge
Unavailable

Note: If a bed is classed as Surge, this is only as defined by the hospital and is not classed as such by
the Ministry of Health when bed utilisation is being reported.

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3.4 Other Bed Board Functions

3.4.1 Filters
Users are able to filter the data displayed on the Patient Mode, Patient List view and Bed Mode by
selecting a secondary filter as identified in the table below.
Table 14: Bed Board Filters

Module
Filter
Patient Mode Patient List View Bed Mode

Ward Type X X X

Ward Group X X X

ED accessible wards X X X

Doctor X X

Specialty X X

3.4.1.1 Adding a Filter

To add a filter the user clicks on the relevant filter button:
AMO Filter for Doctor or Specialty.
Ward Filter for Ward Type, Ward Group or ED Accessible Wards.
Figure 33 Bed Board: Patient Mode, AMO Filter window

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Figure 34: Bed Board Patient Mode, Ward Filter window

From the filter windows the user can select which values they want to filter by:
Highlighting the value to filter by in the list on the left (multiple selections can be made by using
the Ctrl key or using the Shift key to select a block of values).
Either dragging and dropping the value into the list on the right or clicking on the right arrow
button.
Once all the values have been selected click on the Filter Data button.
Once the Filter Data button has been click the following occurs:
1. Filter window will close, the data will refresh and only patients who meet the criteria selected will
display on the Patient Mode, Patient List view or Bed Mode.
2. Text of the AMO Filter or Ward Filter button will display in red to indicate a filter has been
applied.
3. Values selected will display next to the label entitled Filters used.
4. Filtered Profile section on the Patient Mode and Patient List view will update accordingly to reflect
the filtered view OR Ward Filtered Profile section on the Bed Mode will update accordingly to
reflect the filtered view.

3.4.1.2 Doctor and Specialty Filters

When using the AMO Filter button patients can be filtered by:
Doctor OR Speciality.
Doctor AND Specialty.
Doctor, Specialty and Ward Filters.

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3.4.1.3 Ward Filters
The Ward Filter allows patients to be filtered by:
Ward Type OR Ward Group.
Ward Type AND ED Accessible Wards*.
Ward Group AND ED Accessible Wards*.
Ward Filter in addition to Doctor and/or Specialty filters.
The definition of each of these filters is defined in the table below.
Table 15: Bed Board Ward Filter Definitions

Filter Function

State-defined Ward Type.

Applies to a facility and all facilities within a LHD. I.e. user can view wards of the same type either within a
single facility or across multiple facilities/LHD.
Ward Type User can filter by the primary Ward Type or by one or many Sub ward types associated to the primary
Ward Type.
Adding the primary Ward Type will automatically add all the associated Sub ward types. Alternatively user
can select to filter by one or many Sub Ward Types.

Specific to a facility.
Do not apply across an LHD.
Ward Group Allow users to filter by Wards that are assigned to a defined group within a given facility e.g. Mental Health
wards.
Filtering by Ward Group (i.e. click on Ward Group radio button) will disabled the Ward Type list.

User to filter and display only wards that have been flagged as ED accessible.

Users can filter on ED accessible wards only or can filter by Ward Type or Ward Group AND ED
ED accessible
accessible wards.
wards only
To apply the ED accessible wards only filter the user must tick the checkbox entitled ED accessible
wards only at the bottom of the Ward Filter window and then click on the Filter data button.

* Refer to the PFP Administrator Guide for information on how to allocate a Ward Type and Ward Group
to a ward and how to flag a ward as ED accessible.

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3.4.1.4 Clearing Filters
The user can:

Clear ALL filters that have been applied by clicking on the icon located next to the Ward
Filter button. Clicking on this icon will remove ALL filters applied i.e. Ward Filters, AMO filters
and Primary view filters.
Clear AMO/Specialty filters or Ward filters by opening the relevant AMO Filter or Ward Filter
window and clicking on the Clear Filters button at the bottom of the window.

Figure 35: Bed Board Clear Filter Button for AMO Filter

When the filters are cleared the following occurs:

1. Filters are removed and data refreshed.
2. Text of the relevant filter button will display in black to indicate that filters are no longer applied.

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 3.4.2 Searching for a Patient
A user can search for a patient on any screen in the Bed Board module by clicking on the Patient
Search button located in the top right corner of all screens. Clicking on the button opens the Search
Patient window as illustrated in Figure 36.
Figure 36: Search Patient

A list of ALL patients currently admitted in the facility displays, including the patients ID (MRN or UID
depending on the LHD) and ward they are currently admitted to. To find a specific patient the user needs
to start typing the first few letters of the patients surname, first name or ID (MRN or UID depending on
the LHD) in the field at the top of the window. As the user enters the information the list of patients
displayed will start to filter based on a full or partial match. When the patient has been found in the
Search Patient window, double clicking on the patient will open the Detailed Patient Profile for the
selected patient as detailed in Figure 10.
Clicking on the X in the top corner of the Detailed Patient Profile will close the window and return the
user to the Bed Board window they were on before they clicked on the Search Patient button.
Clicking the Cancel button on the Search Patient window will close the window and return the user to
the Bed Board window they were on before they clicked on the Search Patient button.

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 3.4.3 Graphing LOS and Potential Discharges
When using Patient Mode, the user can display a graphical representation of number of patients grouped
by:
LOS This is the default graph.
Potential discharges based on EDD = Expired (i.e. date in the past), today, tomorrow or in 2-3
days time.
By clicking on the graph icon located to the side of the Filter button a graph will be displayed at the
top of the window. The graph updates when any of the following filters are applied:
Primary view.
AMO filter Doctor and / or Specialty.
Ward filter Ward Type, Ward Group or ED Accessible Wards.
Figure 37: Bed Board Patient Mode, Graph View

Figure 38: Bed Board Patient Mode, Potential Discharges Graph

To close the graphing view, the user can either click on the:
located at the top right above the graph OR the
Graph icon.

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 3.4.4 General Functions
General functions the user can perform across Patient Mode, Patient List View and Bed Mode are listed
in the table below:
Table 16: Bed Board General Functions
Function Description Applies To

Hide wards with no patients Hides all wards that have no patients admitted to them. Patient Mode

Hide wards with no beds Hides all wards that have no beds. Bed Mode

Displays the PFP defined ward description as opposed to the PAS defined
ward code on the ward tiles. If this is checked, the wards are sorted in
Display the Ward Patient Mode
alphabetical order based on the PFP defined ward description. Hovering
Description Bed Mode
over the ward tile will display a pop up text box detailing both the ward
code and the ward description.

Patient Mode
Refresh Refreshes data on the screen. Patient List View
Bed Mode

The Data Feed Indicator is displayed at the top of the PFP window
next to the Select Hospital button.

This button indicates the status of the data feed from the selected
facilitys PAS, eMR and Non-Emergency Patient Transport (NEPT).
If the indicator displays in green this indicates messages are being
received in real time. By hovering over the button the following
message is displayed: Messages are being sent and received in real
time.
If the indicator displays in red in either of the indicators, this indicates
messages are not being received in real time. Hovering over the
button will display a message, for example:
Delays are currently being experienced with PFP being updated
with messages from your PAS. Please contact State-wide
Service Desk on 1300 285 533
OR
Delays are currently being experienced with PFP being updated
with messages from your PAS. This problem is in the process of
being resolved by Health Share All modules of the
Data Feed Indicator
PFP
If the first message displays then the user should contact the State-
wide Service desk as Health Share NSW and / or the impacted LHD
PAS Team are not aware of the problem.
If the second message displays then the user does not need to do
anything as Health Share NSW and /or the impacted LHD PAS Team
are aware of the problem.
While the Date Feed Indicator is red then the PFP will not be up to
date with patient admissions, discharges and ward transfers.
If the indicator displays in orange this indicates the problem has been
resolved and messages are now being received in real time.
However, messages that were sent while the Data Feed Indicator was
red have been queued up and are now starting to update PFP. Whilst
the messages are being processed in chronological order until they
are up to date, hovering over the button will display the following
message: Messages are being sent and received in real time;
however there is historical data that is in the process of being loaded
to update PFP
Once the messages are up to date the indicator will turn to green,
indicating that the PFP is receiving messages in real time from the
impacted PAS.

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4.0 TRANSFERS
4.1 Overview
Once a transfer has been requested it will display within the Transfers module, which allows the user to:
Track the status of transfers between facilities (Inter Hospital Transfer).
Track the status of transfers within a given facility (Inter Ward Transfer).
Record and track the status of Direct Ward Admissions.
The Transfers module can be accessed by clicking on the Transfer tab to view:
Outgoing IHTs.
Incoming IHTs.
Ward Transfers.
Direct Ward Admissions.

4.2 Transfer Urgency Categories

Patient transfers initiated through PFP are required to have an Urgency Category. These Urgency
Categories determine when a transfer request has exceeded its recommend timeframe to occur. Once
this recommended timeframe has been exceeded the status of the transfer request will display in red on
the Outgoing IHT, Incoming IHT or Ward Transfers tab respectively. Table 17 identifies the:
Urgency Categories selectable for an IHT or IWT.
Each Urgency Category recommended transfer timeframe.
Each Urgency Category definition as per the NSW Health Policy PD2011_031, Inter-facility
Transfer process for Adults Requiring Specialist Care.
Table 17: Urgency Category Overview
Applies To Recommended Transfer
Urgency Definition
IHT IWT Timeframe

Critically ill/injured patients at risk of critical deterioration if not

Within 4 hours based on the
transferred. This is for patients who are both time urgent
Life threatening X X Transfer Request date /
critically ill, non-time urgent critically ill and patients at risk of
time.
critical deterioration.

Within 24 hours based on Patients who require specialist intervention to prevent or

Urgent specialist
X X the Transfer Request date / manage further deterioration within a short time frame
care < 24hrs
time. (immediate to within 24 hours).

Inpatient Within 72 hours based on Patients who require specialist investigations or management
specialist care X X the Transfer Request date / of care not available at originating site (requires transfer
24-72hrs time. within 24 to 72hrs).

Return Transfer Within 1 business day based Patients who must be transferred with the understanding that
of Care Post X on the Transfer Request when the specialty services are no longer required, care of
Specialist Care date / time. the patient will be transferred back to the originating hospital.

Inpatient Within 72 hours based on

specialist care X the Estimated Request date As per Inpatient specialist care 24-72hrs.
24-72hrs (Future) / time.

Return Transfer
Within 1 business day based
of Care Post
X on the Estimated Request As per Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care.
Specialist Care
date / time.
(Future)

Note: For Urgency Categories = Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care and Return Transfer of
Care Post Specialist Care (Future), if the transfer request was initiated on a Saturday, Sunday or a
Public Holiday the duration in which the recommended timeframe will commence is 8AM the next
business day.

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4.3 Outgoing Inter Hospital Transfers (IHTs)
The default view when the user clicks on the Transfers tab is the Outgoing IHT tab, which details patients who are waiting to be transferred to another facility
from the facility the user is currently logged onto. At the top of the window there are four Summary tables for Outgoing IHTs, Incoming IHTs, Ward Transfers
and Direct Ward Admissions, which displays the:
Total number of open transfers or direct ward admissions by their current status (i.e. Estimated, Requested, Confirmed or In Progress for IHTs and
Requested for Ward Transfers and Direct Ward Admissions).
Number of open transfers that have expired by status (i.e. number of transfers that have exceeded the recommended timeframe for the patient transfer
or direct ward admission to be completed).
These summary tables display at the top of the Transfers module regardless of which tab is selected.

Figure 39: Transfers Outgoing IHTs

1 12 13

7
4 5
3 6 8

10 11

Note: Numbers correspond to Functions listed in Table 18.

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Table 18: Outgoing IHTs Overview
The Outgoing IHTs tab displays the patients that are to be transferred from the selected facility to other
Purpose
facilities. This information can also be printed to a PDF or CSV file for users to take to meetings.

The header is similar to the Bed Board Patient Mode and Patient List View whereby the user can:
Select LHD and Facility depending on their access level.
Select to access Bed Board, Transfers or Bed Management modules.
Access the Search Patient window and Bed Management Admin module the latter for Patient Flow
Administrators only.
Patients are listed in tabular format with columns that can be customised by the user. The default sort
order is:
st
1 Sort: Urgency in following order:
o Life Threatening
o Urgent Specialist Care < 24 hours
Screen Layout o Inpatient Specialist Care 24 72 hours
o Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care
o Inpatient Specialist Care 24 72 hours (Future)
o Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care (Future)
nd
2 Sort: Status in following order:
o Requested
o Confirmed
o In Progress
The data can be custom sorted by clicking on any of the column headers to sort in ascending order by
the given column type i.e. numeric fields e.g. Age, will sort from lowest (youngest) to highest (oldest) or
for text fields, the sort will be alphabetically. Clicking on the column again will reverse sort the column.
Refer to Section 3.2.1 for details about the columns that can be displayed on the Outgoing IHTs tab.

Refer to Figure 39: Transfers Outgoing IHTs

1. Access the Bed Board, Transfers or Bed Management functions.

2. Access Outgoing IHTs, Incoming IHTs, Ward Transfers and Direct Ward Admissions tabs within the
Transfers module.

Displays a summary of Open transfers for each view.

3. Tabular display of patient transfers with default columns: To Facility, Name, Patient ID, Current Ward,
Urgency, Receiving Dr, Specialty, Isolation, Status, Open Transfer Time (Clock), Actions and Transfer
Notes.

4. Print the IHTs in PDF or CSV format.

5. New Transfer Requests can be initiated from the Outgoing IHT tab by clicking on the New Transfer
Request button. These transfer requests open the IHT Patient Transfer Request window similar to the
one that can be accessed from the Patient List View. When requesting a transfer from the Outgoing
Functions IHTs tab, the patient information is not auto populated.

Note: All IHTs should be initiated from the Patient List View. However, there are some instances
where this is not possible due to the patient not appearing on the Patient Summary e.g. for out of
Emergency patients where there is no clerical staff on duty. If this applies to your facility please contact
MoH Patient Flow Portal Principal Policy Analysts for further advice regarding how to process transfers
using the New Transfer Request button on the Outgoing IHTs tab.

6. Customise columns to be displayed on the Outgoing IHTs tab. When a user exits the Outgoing IHTs tab,
the columns selected, order of columns and width of columns are saved.

7. Last refreshed displays the date/time the Outgoing IHTs tab was last refreshed. The screen
automatically refreshes every 5 mins but the user can manually update the window by clicking on the
refresh icon.

8. Reset columns to the default system generated view.

9. Checkboxes that allow the user to update the status to Confirmed, In Progress and Completed.

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 10. Click on to edit an IHT request.

11. Click on to cancel an IHT request.

12. Access the Bed Management Admin module for Patient Flow Administrators only.

13. Patient Search button.

4.3.1 Customising columns

Additional columns can be added to the Outgoing IHTs tab by ticking the relevant checkbox(s) from the
drop down list displayed when clicking on the arrow at the side of the button entitled Click to Customise
Columns as illustrated in Figure 40. These columns are detailed in Table 19.

Figure 40: Outgoing IHT, Click to Customise Columns

Table 19: Outgoing IHTs Columns

Column Notes

Displays two icons to allow the user to Edit an Outgoing IHT and Cancel an IHT.
Actions
This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Outgoing IHTs tab.

Displays the patients address, which only display if the user has approved access to the ward the
Address
patient is admitted to.

Age Displays the patients age.

Bed Type Displays the type of bed required for the patient.

Current Ward Displays the ward the patient is currently admitted to.

DOB Displays the patients Date of Birth.

Displays the patients detailed financial status based on the financial class code sent by the PAS to
Financial Description
PFP. E.g. Medicare D/O Hospital Doctor.

Displays the patients Financial Status based on the financial class code sent by the PAS. E.g.
Financial Status
Public, Chargeable, DVA, Compensable, Ineligible, Deferred or Other.

Gender Displays the patients gender.

HLOS Displays the patients length of stay for their current admission.

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 Column Notes

Isolation Displays whether the patient requires isolation.

Displays the patients name.

Name
This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Outgoing IHTs tab.

Displays the Status of the NEPT transport

NEPT (Non-
Emergency Patient
Transport)

Displays the time of Pick-up from sending hospital and displays time of Delivery to the accepting
NEPT Detail
Hospital.

Open Transfer Time Displays how long the transfer has been open.
(Clock) This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Outgoing IHTs tab.

Patient ID Displays the patients UID or MRN depending on the LHD.

Receiving Contact Displays contact details of the person who has accepted the patient at the receiving facility.

Receiving Dr. Displays the name of the person who has accepted the patient at the receiving facility.

Requesting Contact Displays contact details of the person who has requested the transfer at the sending facility.

Requesting Dr. Displays the name of the person who has requested the transfer at the sending facility.

Service Category Displays the Service Category of the patient.

Specialty Displays the specialty the patient is being transferred under.

Displays the current status of the transfer with the following colour formatting:
Red If the transfer has expired (i.e. not been completed in the recommended timeframe).
Black If the transfer has not expired but needs to be actioned.
Status
Green If the transfer is not scheduled to occur yet (i.e. Transfers initiated with a future urgency
category and estimated transfer date/time that is in the future from the now date/time.

This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Outgoing IHTs tab.

Facility the patient is being requested to be transferred to. If the patient has been requested to be
To Facility transferred to more than one facility, all the facilities will display until the patient is accepted at one of
them.

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 Column Notes

This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Outgoing IHTs tab.

Transfer Notes Displays any free text notes entered for the IHT.

Displays the Urgency of the transfer.

Urgency
This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Outgoing IHTs tab.

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 4.3.2 Edit Outgoing IHT Request
The Transfer request can be edited by clicking on the Edit icon in the Actions column on the
Outgoing IHTs window Refer to Figure 39.
Figure 41: Transfers Edit IHT Request

From this window the user can update any of the transfer information including adding a request for a
transfer to another or different facility by clicking on the Add Facility button (only applicable if the
transfer still has a status of Requested). Clicking on the Save button will save the changes and close
the Edit window.
Note: Once a transfer has been Confirmed the facility table becomes non-editable and the user must
cancel the transfer if it is no longer required or if the transfer is to a different facility. For further
information about adding a Facility and Receiving Doctor refer to Section 3.2.3.1 within this document.

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 4.3.3 Cancelling Outgoing IHT Request
A transfer can only be cancelled by the requesting facility i.e. from the Outgoing IHTs window by
clicking on the cancel icon in the Actions column - Refer to Figure 39. The user must select a reason
from the drop down list as to why the transfer is being cancelled and some additional free text which is
optional. Reasons include:
Patient deceased
Patient discharged
Patient transferred to another facility
Treatment provided / completed at admitting facility
Request for transfer not appropriate
Cancelled by receiving hospital
Other
Figure 42: Cancel IHT Window

Once the user has entered a reason for the cancellation and optional notes, clicking on the Cancel
Transfer button will cancel the transfer and the patient will be removed from the transfer lists at both the
requesting and receiving facilities. By clicking on the Cancel button, the user will exit from this window
without cancelling the transfer. If the user selects Cancelled by receiving hospital as the Reason for
Cancellation the Notes free text field is mandatory and must be completed before the transfer can be
cancelled.

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4.4 Incoming Inter Hospital Transfers (IHTs)
The Incoming IHTs tab allows the user to view outstanding requests from other facilities for patient transfers into their facility.
Figure 43: Transfers, Incoming IHT

1 12 13
2

7
4 5
3 6 8

10 11

The information displayed and functionality on the Incoming IHTs tab, including the default sort and updating of a transfer is the same as the Outgoing IHTs tab
Refer to Table 18, with the following exceptions:
First default column is the name of the facility requesting the transfer.
Transfer request cannot be cancelled by the receiving facility unless it was initiated from the Receive IHT from non PFP site button.
Transfer request can only be edited to add Transfer Notes, the To Ward and bed at the receiving facility. This information can then be viewed by the
requesting facility via the Outgoing IHT tab.
Transfer requests can be initiated from facilities that are not active on PFP

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 4.4.1 Customising columns
For information about customising columns for the Incoming IHTs tab refer to the Outgoing IHTs tab
Section 4.3.1. All columns that can be customised are the same with the exception of the columns
identified in Table 20.
Table 20: Incoming IHTs Columns

Column Notes

Facility the patient is being requested to be transferred from.

From Facility
This column cannot be removed from the Incoming IHTs tab.

To Ward Ward the receiving facility is admitting the patient into.

4.4.2 Receive IHT from non-PFP sites

All IHTs should be initiated from the Patient List View by the requesting facility. However, there are
some instances where a facility does not use the PFP or does not have access to PFP e.g. Private
Hospitals. By clicking on the button Receive IHT from non PFP Site, the user can record a transfer from
a facility that does not use or have access to PFP.
Figure 44: Transfers, Receive Inter Hospital Transfer (IHT) from Non PFP Site

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The user must complete the mandatory fields that have an * before an incoming transfer request can be
submitted. Once all mandatory information to complete the transfer request has been entered, clicking on
Save will submit the transfer request, return the user to the Incoming IHTs tab. The IHT request from a
non-PFP site will now display on the Incoming IHTs tab. Table 21 provides details about the data
elements on the Receive IHT from Non PFP Site window.
Table 21: Receive IHT from Non PFP Site Data Elements

Field Mandatory Description

From LHD Yes LHD the facility is in that the patient is being transferred from.

Facility the patient is being transferred from. Note: To enter an incoming

From Facility Yes transfer from a facility that is not in the drop down list, the user can click on the
Search button at the side of the LHD field to open the Search Facility window.

Requesting Doctor Yes Name of the Doctor requesting for the patient to be transferred.

Contact Name Yes Name of the person to be contacted in relation to the transfer.

Contact Phone No Contact number of the person to be contacted.

Patient First Name Yes Patients First name.

Patient Last Name Yes Patients Surname.

Patient ID Yes Patients UID or MRN.

Gender No Patients gender.

Patient D.O.B Yes Patients Date of Birth.

Isolation Yes Does the patient need to be isolated.

Ward the patient is currently admitted to (free text field which does not get
Current Ward No
automatically updated as the patient is transferred between wards).

Urgency of the transfer:

Life Threatening
Urgent Specialist Care < 24 hours
Urgency Yes Inpatient Specialist Care 24 72 hours
Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care
Inpatient Specialist Care 24 72 hours (Future)
Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care (Future)

Bed Type Required Yes Type of bed the patient needs when transferred e.g. Monitored.

Speciality the patient is to be admitted under as selected from a pre-defined

Speciality No
list.

The date the patient is due to be transferred. Disabled and defaults to the
Now date and time if Urgency is one of:
Life threatening
Urgent specialist care < 24hrs
Estimated Transfer
Yes Inpatient specialist care 24-72hrs
Date
Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care

Enabled, blank and mandatory if Urgency is one of:

Inpatient specialist care 24-72hrs (Future)
Return Transfer of Care Post Specialist Care (Future)

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 Field Mandatory Description

To Ward No Ward the patient is to be admitted to when received from the sending facility.

Bed No Bed the patient will be admitted into.

Receiving Doctor No Name of the Doctor accepting the patient.

Receiving Doctor
No Contact number of the Doctor accepting the patient.
Contact

Transfer Notes No Free text notes regarding the transfer of the patient.

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4.5 Ward Transfers
Figure 45: Transfers, Ward Transfers
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2

6
4
3 5 7

9 10

Note: Numbers correspond to Functions listed in Table 22.

.

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Table 22: Ward Transfers Overview
The Ward Transfers tab, allows the user to view all inter ward transfer requests within their facility, as
Purpose requested from the Patient List View. i.e. Ward Transfers cannot be requested from the Ward Transfers
tab.

The header is similar to the Bed Board Patient Mode and Patient List View where by the user can:
Select LHD and Facility depending on their access level.
Select to access Bed Board, Transfers or Bed Management modules.
Access the Search Patient window and Bed Management Admin module the latter for Patient Flow
Administrators only.
Patients are listed in tabular format with columns that can be customised by the user. The default sort
order is:
Screen Layout st
1 Sort: Urgency in following order:
o Life Threatening
o Urgent Specialist Care < 24 hours
o Inpatient Specialist Care 24 72 hours
nd
2 Sort: Status of Requested in reverse chronological order.
The data can be custom sorted by clicking on any of the column headers to sort in ascending order by
the given column type i.e. numeric fields e.g. Age, will sort from lowest (youngest) to highest (oldest)
or for text fields, the sort will be alphabetically. Clicking on the column again will reverse sort the
column.

Refer to Figure 45: Transfers, Ward Transfers

1. Access the Bed Board, Transfers or Bed Management functions.

2. Access Outgoing IHTs, Incoming IHTs, Ward Transfers and Direct Ward Admissions tabs within the
Transfers module. Displays a summary of Open transfers for each view.

3. Tabular display of patient transfers with default columns: Current Ward, To Ward, Name, Patient ID,
Urgency, Specialty, Isolation, Bed Type, Status, Open Transfer Time (Clock), Actions and Transfer
Notes.

4. Print the Ward Transfer in PDF or CSV format.

5. Customise columns to be displayed on the Ward Transfers tab. When a user exits the Ward Transfer
tab, the columns selected, order of columns and width of columns are saved.
Functions
6. Last refreshed displays the date/time the Ward Transfers tab was last refreshed. The screen
automatically refreshes every 5 mins but the user can manually update the window by clicking on the
refresh icon.

7. Reset columns to the default system generated view.

8. Checkboxes that allow the user to update the status to Completed.

9. Click on to edit an IWT request.

10. Click on to cancel an IWT request.

11. Access the Bed Management Admin module for Patient Flow Administrators only.

12. Patient Search button.

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 4.5.1 Customising columns
Additional columns can be added to the Ward Transfers tab by ticking the relevant checkbox(s) from the
drop down list displayed when clicking on the arrow at the side of the button entitled Click to Customise
Columns. The columns that are available for Ward Transfers tab are listed in Table 23.
Table 23: Ward Transfers Columns

Column Notes

Displays two icons to allow the user to Edit an Outgoing IHT and Cancel an IHT.
Actions
This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Ward Transfers tab.

Displays the patients address, which will only display if the user has access to the ward the patient is
Address
admitted to.

Age Displays the patients age.

Bed Type Displays the type of bed required for the patient.

Displays the ward the patient is currently admitted to.

Current Ward
This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Ward Transfers tab.

DOB Displays the patients Date of Birth.

Displays the patients detailed financial status based on the financial class code sent by the PAS to
Financial Description
PFP. E.g. Medicare D/O Hospital Doctor.

Displays the patients Financial Status based on the financial class code sent by the PAS. E.g.
Financial Status
Public, Chargeable, DVA, Compensable, Ineligible, Deferred or Other.

Gender Displays the patients gender.

HLOS Displays the patients length of stay for their current admission.

Isolation Displays whether the patient requires isolation.

Displays the patients name.

Name
This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Ward Transfers tab.

Open Transfer Time Displays how long the transfer has been open.
(Clock) This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Ward Transfers tab.

Patient ID Displays the patients UID or MRN depending on the LHD.

Receiving Contact Displays contact details of the person who has accepted the patient at the receiving ward.

Receiving Dr. Displays the name of the person who has accepted the patient at the receiving ward.

Requesting Contact Displays contact details of the person who has requested the transfer at the sending ward.

Requesting Dr. Displays the name of the person who has requested the transfer at the sending ward.

Service Category Displays the Service Category of the patient.

Specialty Displays the specialty the patient is being transferred under.

Displays the current status of the transfer, which displays in red if the Transfer has exceeded the
duration for the given urgency. When the To Ward = From Ward the IWT status is set to Completed
Status
and the transfer no longer appears on the Ward Transfers tab. This is a mandatory column that
cannot be removed from the Ward Transfers tab.

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 Column Notes

To Ward Ward the patient is requested to be transferred to.

Transfer Notes Displays any free text notes entered for the IWT.

Displays the Urgency of the transfer.

Urgency
This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Ward Transfers tab.

WLOS Displays the patients length of stay in their current ward.

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 4.5.2 Edit IWT Request
The Ward Transfer request can be edited by clicking on the Edit icon in the Actions column on the
Ward Transfers tab Refer to Figure 45.
Figure 46: Ward Transfers, Edit IWT Request

4.5.3 Cancelling an IWT

An IWT can be cancelled by clicking on the icon in the Actions column on the Ward transfers tab
Refer to Figure 45. The user must enter a reason from the drop down list as to why the transfer is being
cancelled and optional additional free text.
Figure 47: Transfers Cancel IWT

Once the user has completed the Cancel Transfer window, clicking on the Cancel Transfer button will
cancel the transfer and the patient will be removed from the Ward Transfers tab. By clicking on the
Cancel button, the user will exit from the window without cancelling the ward transfer.

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4.6 Direct Ward Admissions
Figure 48: Transfers, Direct Ward Admissions

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7
4 5
3 6 8

10 11

Note: Numbers correspond to Functions listed in Table 24

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Table 24: Direct Ward Admissions Overview
Direct Ward Admissions (DWA) tab allows the user to enter and track the progress of direct admissions into
Purpose
specific wards within a facility.

The header is similar to the Bed Board Patient Mode and Patient List View where by the user can:
Select LHD and Facility depending on their access level.
Select to access Bed Board, Transfers or Bed Management modules.
Access the Search Patient window and Bed Management Admin module the latter for Patient Flow
Administrators only.
Screen Layout Patients are listed in tabular format with columns that can be customised by the user. The default sort
order is by the date/time the DWA was requested.
The data can be custom sorted by clicking on any of the column headers to sort in ascending order by
the given column type i.e. numeric fields e.g. Age, will sort from lowest (youngest) to highest (oldest) or
for text fields, the sort will be alphabetically. Clicking on the column again will reverse sort the column.

Refer to Figure 48: Transfers, Direct Ward Admissions

1. Access the Bed Board, Transfers or Bed Management functions.
2. Access Outgoing IHTs, Incoming IHTs, Ward Transfers and Direct Ward Admissions tabs within the
Transfers module. Displays a summary of Open transfers for each view.
3. Tabular display of direct ward admissions with default columns: From Location, To Ward, Name, Receive
by & Phone, Specialty, Isolation, Clinical Notes, Bed Type, Est Admit Date, Est LOS, Status, Open
Transfer Time (Clock) and Actions.
4. Print the direct ward admissions in PDF or CSV format.
5. New Request Direct Ward Admissions can only be initiated from the Direct Ward Admissions tab by
clicking on the New Request button. When clicking on this button the Request Direct Ward Admission
window displays.
6. Customise columns to be displayed on the Direct Ward Admissions tab. When a user exits the Direct
Functions Ward Admissions tab, the columns selected, order of columns and width of columns are saved.
7. Last refreshed displays the date/time the Direct Ward Admissions tab was last refreshed. The screen
automatically refreshes every 5 mins but the user can manually update the window by clicking on the
refresh icon.
8. Reset columns to the default system generated view.
9. Checkboxes that allow the user to update the status to Completed.

10. Click on to edit a DWA request.

11. Click on to cancel a DWA request.

12. Access the Bed Management Admin module for Patient Flow Administrators only.
13. Patient Search button.

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 4.6.1 Customising columns
Columns can be customised on the Direct Ward Admissions tab by ticking the relevant checkbox(s) from
the drop down list displayed when clicking on the arrow at the side of the button entitled Click to
Customise Columns. The columns that are available for the Direct Ward Admissions tab are listed in
Table 25.
Table 25: Direct Ward Admissions Columns

Column Notes

Displays two icons to allow the user to Edit an Outgoing IHT and Cancel an IHT.
Actions
This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Direct Ward Admissions tab.

Bed Type Displays the type of bed required for the patient.

Clinical Notes Displays any free text notes entered for the DWA.

DOB Displays the patients Date of Birth.

Est. Admit Date Displays the date the patient is estimated to be admitted.

Est. LOS Displays the patients estimated length of stay once admitted.

From Location Location the patient is being admitted from.

Gender Displays the patients gender.

Isolation Displays whether the patient requires isolation.

Displays the patients name.

Name
This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Direct Ward Admissions tab.

Displays how long the transfer has been open.

Open Transfer Time (Clock)
This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Direct Ward Admissions tab.

Patient ID Displays the patients ID as entered manually by the user.

Receiving By & Phone Displays the name and contact details of the person who has accepted the patient.

Specialty Displays the specialty the patient is to be admitted under.

Displays the current status of the direct ward admissions, which will be in red if it has exceeded
Status 24 hours before the patient has been admitted.

This is a mandatory column that cannot be removed from the Direct Ward Admissions tab.

To Ward Ward the patient is to be admitted into to.

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 4.6.2 Request New or Edit Direct Ward Admissions
To request a Direct Ward Admission, the user must click on the button entitled New Request located at
the top right of the Direct Ward Admissions tab.
Figure 49: Transfers, Direct Admissions, New Direct Ward Admission

The user must complete the mandatory fields that have an * before a direct ward admission can be
submitted. Once the mandatory information has been entered, clicking on Save will submit the request,
return the user to the Direct Ward Admissions tab and display the request on the Direct Ward
Admissions tab. By clicking on Cancel, the direct ward admission request is cancelled and the user is
returned to the Direct Ward Admissions tab.

To edit a direct ward admission, the user needs to click on the icon in the Actions column on the
Direct Ward Admissions tab. This will open the same window as the request New Direct Ward Admission
window with all the fields pre-populated based on the initial request.

4.6.3 Cancel Direct Ward Admissions

A Direct Ward Admission can be cancelled by clicking on the Cancel icon in the Actions column on
the Direct Ward Admissions tab. The user must enter a free text reason as to why the admission is being
cancelled.

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Figure 50: Ward Transfer, Cancel Direct Ward Admission

Once the user has completed the Cancel Direct Ward Admission window, clicking on the Cancel
Admission button will cancel the request and the patient will be removed from the Direct Ward
Admission tab. By clicking on the Cancel button, the user will exit out of this window without cancelling
the direct ward admission.

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5.0 BED MANAGEMENT MODULE
Clicking on the Bed Management tab will open the default Bed Management window, which has two
views: Schedule or Ward Profile. Only Patient Flow Administrators can toggle between the Schedule and
Ward Profile tabs by clicking on the relevant button underneath the module tabs. All other users only
have access to the Schedule tab.
Figure 51: Bed Management: Schedule View

The Bed Management module allows any user with access rights as a Patient Flow Administrator to:
Create profiles (templates) for bed availability in the future.
Change bed availability on an ad hoc/as-needed basis.

Note: The Bed Board User Guide provides a simple overview of the Bed Management
functionality. For further information about how to use the Bed Management functionality refer to
the Patient Flow Portal Bed Board Administrator Guide.

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5.1 Ward Profile Window
Only users with an access level of Patient Flow Administrator can access the Ward Profile window to
create a ward profile/template for their hospital in regards to:
Capacity
Open beds
Available beds
Surge beds
Closed beds
The Ward Profile can be defined for an extended period e.g. next year. Any changes required to the bed
numbers for the next two weeks cannot be implemented through the Ward Profile window. The Patient
Flow Administrator will be required to make these changes to the 14 day bed availability via the Schedule
window.
Note: Patient Flow Administrators should refer to the PFP Administrator Guide for further details on
creating Ward Profiles.

Figure 52: Bed Management Ward Profile Window

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5.2 Schedule Window
The Schedule functionality is accessible:
With administrator functions for the Patient Flow Administrator i.e. ability to update the availability
of beds in a ward for the next 14 days based on the rules for updating ward profiles defined in
Section 1.3.2.
As a read only module for all other users.
For all users to view the different status of beds in a selected ward on an hour by hour basis by
clicking on the relevant button at the top right of the matrix.
The Schedule assists with:
Capacity and demand planning by monitoring the occupancy of a ward.
Monitoring bed utilisation.
Factoring in bed availability into demand escalation plans by knowing tipping points.
A ward Schedule can be modified by the Patient Flow Administrator by:
1. Clicking on the button entitled Schedule.
2. Selecting the ward the user wants to modify the bed availability for from the drop down list at the
side of the field entitled Ward. This will display a matrix detailing the bed availability on an hour
by hour basis for each day in the next two weeks, commencing with today. The default view is
the number of beds that are currently Open but the user can change the view to display the
different status of beds by clicking on the relevant button at the top left of the matrix.
3. From any these views the user can update the status of the beds within the selected ward, for
one or more selected hours by clicking on the button entitled Edit Bed Numbers Refer to Figure
53.
4. Beds can also be made temporarily unavailable by clicking on the button entitled Set
Unavailable Beds. The value displayed in the hour(s) cell when there are unavailable beds
displays in red, regardless of the bed status being viewed. By hovering over these specific cells,
the user will notified about the number of unavailable beds.

Figure 53: Bed Management Schedule Window

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